I continue to be amazed by the small but significant way that U.S. southwest painter Nicolai Fechin's biography dovetails with my own. As stories of relationships...

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President Vladimir Putin will travel to Belarus on May 31 for his first foreign visit since taking office earlier this month, followed by a trip to...

Four Russian motorcycle tourists who spent five days in an Iraqi jail after entering the Middle Eastern country without valid visas have...

A manager for the Aeroexpress train service faces fraud charges after being caught taking a bribe in exchange for extending a shop's lease at Sheremetyevo Airport, police said. ...

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for United Russia to be &ldquo;rebuilt from scratch&rdquo; at a convention that elected him party leader over the weekend. Prime...

Sweden&rsquo;s Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after...

The&nbsp;movement that gave us rallying cries like &quot;for fair elections&quot; and&nbsp;&quot;Putin thief!&quot; may have found a&nbsp;new...

Serbia is on&nbsp;a &quot;long and&nbsp;uncertain&quot; road to&nbsp;joining the&nbsp;European Union but will not give up its claim to&nbsp;Kosovo...

A&nbsp;Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to&nbsp;Syria and&nbsp;was due to&nbsp;arrive at&nbsp;a Syrian port over the&nbsp;weekend...

Ukraine's ruling party has triggered violent protests with a&nbsp;move to&nbsp;upgrade the&nbsp;official role of&nbsp;Russian, a&nbsp;sensitive...

President Vladimir Putin urged partners in&nbsp;the Gazprom-led Shtokman gas project to&nbsp;speed up a&nbsp;final investment decision. President...

American Depositary Receipts of&nbsp;VimpelCom Ltd. closed down 16.27 percent Friday on&nbsp;the New York Stock Exchange as U.S. investors reacted after a&nbsp;Moscow court blocked payouts from&nbsp;its Russian unit in&nbsp;response to&nbsp;a disputed...

Nationalism is an&nbsp;infantile disease. It is the&nbsp;measles of&nbsp;mankind.&quot; Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.&quot; This quote from Albert Einstein is a very convenient...

In&nbsp;&quot;The Godfather,&quot; author Mario Puzo describes criminal boss Don Corleone's organization as a&nbsp;highly centralized...

PepsiCo plans to start producing alcoholic cider, mead and a traditional sweet drink called sbiten, the company has told the Federal Service for Intellectual...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves this week on an eight-day trip that will include stops in Armenia, Georgia and...

CHISINAU — A Moldovan court sentenced three people for their part in illegal trafficking of uranium-235, which can be used in making...

Six people were convicted last week for&nbsp;instigating riots on&nbsp;Dec. 16 in&nbsp;the Kazakh city of&nbsp;Zhanaozen. Kazakh leaders and&nbsp;prosecutors claimed all along that the&nbsp;massacre was organized by&nbsp;&quot;a group of&nbsp;former oil workers aided by&nbsp;a...

Minister Mikhail Abyzov twice denied in&nbsp;a November interview that he would accept a&nbsp;government job. Wikipedia Abyzov Minister Mikhail Abyzov twice denied in a November interview that he would...